Active Hope Circle

How do you respond to the Climate Crisis? Where do you find your inspiration and energy to make it happen?

This Active Hope Circle is a place to engage with the way you’re feeling about the world and your place in it.  You’ll discover helpful ways to open conversations about Climate and re-energise yourself and others, to move beyond stuckness, fear, grief and despair into reclaiming a sense of hopeful action.

During the workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Explore your personal response to the Climate Emergency.
• Learn practices that can sustain yourself and others in times of despair.
• See your work and your role with fresh eyes.
• Identify action steps for walking your hope out into the world.
• Create a community of Active Hope with other coaches from around the world.

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What is Active Hope?

Active Hope is a mindset and set of practices that invites each of us to turn up and turn toward the challenges confronting us, rather than closing down and turning away. It is a way to transmute the difficult emotions we may feel about the state of the world into generative, hopeful actions.

In doing so, we develop courage in holding space for others to do the same, so that rather than perpetuating a negative cycle of fear, numbing or nihilism we carve a path of hope with our actions.

The concept of ‘Active Hope’ is based on the work of Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, who co-authored a book of the same name.

What is an Active Hope circle?

The format is based on traditional talking circles, which support participants to give voice to what’s in their heart and on their mind, and to listen deeply and openly to that of others.

These practices come from ancient roots. They have been used in indigenous cultures over millennia as a method for communities to move through difficult times, together.

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Why should you attend?

“When we bring our fears into the open, they lose the power to haunt us.” Joanna Macy

The Climate Crisis often feels overwhelming. For many people, there are few spaces – at home, work, or with friends – where we can face our concerns and acknowledge the weight of what we’re feeling.

This Active Hope circle will be a place to listen and share in community with others. The practices we’ll do together build resilience, preventing us from getting stuck in negativity spirals, and instead, strengthening our resolve to discover and play our part in addressing concerns about the world.

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What to bring

• Generous listening skills
• A commitment to participate
• Journal / paper, pen
• An item you found in nature that is of significance for you.